Trinity Church Cemetery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trinity Church Cemetery consists of three separate burial grounds associated with Trinity Church in Manhattan, New York, USA. The first was established in the Churchyard located at 74 Trinity Place at Wall Street and Broadway. In 1842, the church, running out of space in its churchyard, established Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum in Upper Manhattan between Broadway and Riverside Drive, at the Chapel of the Intercession (now The Church of the Intercession), formerly the location of John James Audubon's estate. A third burial place is the Churchyard of St. Paul's Chapel.
The burial grounds have been the final resting place for many historic figures since the Churchyard cemetery opened in 1697. A non-denominational cemetery, it is listed in the United States National Register of Historic Places and is the only remaining active cemetery in Manhattan. There are two bronze plaques marking the spot where some of the fiercest fighting of the Revolutionary War occurred during the Battle of Washington Heights.
Contents |
[edit] Notable burials
[edit] Trinity Churchyard
- John Alsop (1724-1794), delegate to the Continental Congress
- John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) businessman, founder of the Astor family of New York
- William Bradford (1660-1752), colonial printer
- Richard Churcher (1676-1723), whose grave is marked by the oldest carved gravestone in New York City
- Robert Fulton (1765-1815), inventor
- Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), United States Congressman, statesman
- Horatio Gates (1727-1806), Revolutionary War general
- Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, founder of The Bank of New York
- Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757-1854), wife of Alexander Hamilton
- John Sloss Hobart (1738-1805), United States Senator
- James Lawrence (1781-1813), naval hero
- Francis Lewis (1713-1802), signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Walter Livingston (1740-1797), delegate to the Continental Congress
- Luther Martin (1744-1826), delegate to the Continental Congress
- John Jordan Morgan (1770-1849), United States Congressman
- Thomas Jefferson Oakley (1783-1857), United States Congressman
- John Morrin Scott (1730-1784), delegate to the Continental Congress
- George Templeton Strong (1820-1875), diarist, abolitionist, lawyer
- Silas Talbot (1750-1813), naval commodore, second captain of the USS Constitution
- John Watts (1749-1836), United States Congressman
- Franklin Wharton (1767-1818), Marine Corps commandant
- Hugh Williamson (1735-1802), signer of the United States Constitution
- John Peter Zenger (1697-1746), newspaper publisher whose libel trial helped establish the right to a free press
[edit] Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum
- Mercedes de Acosta, lesbian writer, socialite, lover of Greta Garbo, and a sister of Rita de Acosta Lydig (see below)
- General William Alexander (1726-1783), General at the Battle of Long Island
- Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor (1830-1908), socialite
- John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890), philanthropist
- John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912), businessman killed in the sinking of the Titanic
- John Jacob Astor VI (1912-1992)
- Madeleine Force Astor (1893-1940), socialite, Titanic survivor
- John James Audubon (1785-1851) artist
- John Winthrop Chanler (1826-1877), United States Congressman
- William Astor Chanler (1867-1934), United States Congressman
- William Augustus Darling (1817-1895), United States Congressman
- Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845-1912), lecturer on the life of his father, Charles Dickens
- John Adams Dix, (1798-1879) soldier, United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York, statesman
- Edward Haight (1817-1885), United States Congressman
- Eliza Jumel (1775-1865), a prostitute who later became the wealthiest woman in America and wife of Aaron Burr
- Rita de Acosta Lydig, a famous socialite of the early 1900s who was proclaimed one of the most beautiful women in the world
- Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), pastor to whom authorship of A Visit from St. Nicholas has traditionally been attributed
- Jerry Orbach (1935-2004), actor
- Samuel Seabury (1873-1958), New York City Judge
- Fernando Wood (1812-1881), Mayor of New York City
[edit] Churchyard of St. Paul's Chapel
- George Frederick Cooke (1756-1812), actor whose skull was used in Edwin Booth's production of Hamlet
- Etienne Marie Bechet Sieur de Rochefontaine (d. 1798), Revolutionary War Continental Army officer.
- John Holt (1721-1784), publisher
- Richard Montgomery (1738-1775) Major General in the Continental Army
[edit] External links
- Trinity Church Official Site.
- Hi-Res Photo Gallery of the Trinity Church Cemetery.
